Several recent surveys that have come across my desk appear to indicate that intelligent mobile devices are rapidly sneaking into organizations and introducing numbers of business and IT decision makers to various forms of cloud computing. CRM, collaborative applications, document storage, travel and other important workloads can be accessed by smartphones, tablets as well as more traditional laptop computers.

Lenovo on Tuesday announced its ThinkPad X200 Tablet PC and ThinkPad T400s laptop, both with capacitive multitouch technology for business users and "SimpleTap," a proprietary interface for touch applications.

I subscribe to a couple of actual magazines and was just reading through Laptop this past weekend and found a very helpful article that I though readers here may enjoy. I am a major 3rd party application fan on my mobile devices and enjoyed reading the Best Free Smartphone Apps article in the magazine. You can view an online version of the article that also includes some recommend priced applications for the iPhone, Windows Mobile, and BlackBerry platforms. I posted my own S60 best apps on Nokia Experts to complete the mobile platform roundup.

As organizations look for ways to reduce the cost of installing, updating, managing and making secure desktop and laptop systems, they come across the idea of viewing the laptop or desktop as just an endpoint or access point device. Once they've gotten to this point, they start thinking about all of the ways applications can be "projected" to that device.

Intel's David Perlmutter showed the company's new quad-core laptop computers at the Intel Developer Conference in San Francisco. He demonstrated how video conferencing can be done in HD--even with other applications running in the background--without sacrificing power and performance.

Intel's David Perlmutter showed the company's new quad-core laptop computers at the Intel Developer Conference in San Francisco. He demonstrated how video conferencing can be done in HD--even with other applications running in the background--without sacrificing power and performance.

The Gap said Friday that a laptop containing personal information of about 800,000 job applicants was stolen from a third party vendor.The vendor, which wasn't named, manages job applicant data for the Gap.

There are many approaches to offering computing services to mobile staff today. One approach is providing everyone with their own laptop, their own portfolio of applications and making them become their own system manager, security manager and operations manager.

update New Zealand's biggest IT users seem in no rush to deploy Microsoft's Office 2007, adopting a wait and see attitude to the software suite.A majority of chief information officers and heads of IT at the country's top 20 government, education and corporate IT users polled by ZDNet Australia expressed little enthusiasm for upgrading in the near future.

At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, ZDNet's James Hilliard looks at a laptop prototype that features Bluetooth connectivity and closed-lid access to the unit's applications, while extending battery life.

Graphics chip maker Nvidia Corp. used this week's Comdex gathering in Las Vegas to take the wraps off the GeForce2 Go, a new chip designed specifically for low-power applications such as laptop computers that is based on a Mac-compatible chip architecture.

Personal computer sales are coming on strong, driven by a new round of corporate upgrades, improved laptop performance and consumers looking for more horsepower to access broadband Internet applications, analysts say. All of which points to the best year for the computer-hardware industry since 1996, according to Lehman Brothers analyst Dan Niles.

Transmeta executives said the company's new Crusoe processors will power traditional laptop computers as well as a new generation of portable Internet computers. The company is touting the chips'low power consumption and ability to run common software applications.

It&#039;s the quintessential information-age disaster: You&#039;re on the road, getting ready for an important presentation, when your laptop dies. How do you get at the files and applications you need?